C Programming Language: Edition 2

Name: C Programming Language: Edition 2
Rating: 4.125984191894531 (127 reviews)

Brian W. Kernighan · Dennis Ritchie

Mar 1988 · Prentice Hall

4.1

127 reviews

eBook

288

Pages

Eligible

About this eBook

The definitive reference guide to C programming from K&R for writing good code that works and is easy to modify

Learn how to program in C from the developers of C, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Intended for those with at least some experience with one other language (even if you are a novice), this book contains a tutorial introduction to get new users started as soon as possible and separate chapters on each major feature:

Types, operators, and expressions
Control flow
Functions and program structure
Pointers and arrays
Structures
Input and output

This second edition of The C Programming Language describes C as defined by the ANSI standard and includes a reference manual that conveys the essentials of the standard in a smaller space for easy comprehension for programmers.

"K&R is one of my favorite books. The style of the tutorial chapters is so deceptively light and simple and the manual so crisp. Much of C's reputation of simplicity comes from the clarity and great little examples from this book. My 1978 copy has lost its cover and my K&R2 is somewhat dog eared. Above all, K&R is a useful book."

Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and original implementer of C++, and author of The C++ Programming Language

Ratings and reviews

4.1

127 reviews

Conrad Sabatier

15 July 2019

Absolutely one of the best books on programming it has ever been my pleasure to experience.

1 person found this review helpful

Shreyans Pathak

17 August 2016

Legendary book, Legendary Writers!

41 people found this review helpful

dinesh satharasi

16 November 2017

U can get hardcopy @ 250

2 people found this review helpful

About the author

Brian W. Kernighan received his BASc from the University of Toronto in 1964 and a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969. He was a member of the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000, and is now a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton. He was a co-creator of several programming languages, including AWK, AMPL, and a number of tools for document preparation. He is the co-author of 10 books and some technical papers, and holds 4 patents. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002. His research areas include programming languages, tools and interfaces that make computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users. He is also interested in technology education for non-technical audiences.

Dennis Ritchie was a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix.

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